A/HRC/RES/16/30
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other
occupied Arab territories
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
16/30
Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in
particular the provisions of Articles 1 and 55 thereof, which affirm the right of peoples to
self-determination, and reaffirming the need for the scrupulous respect of the principle of
refraining in international relations from the threat or use of force, as specified in the
Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and
Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, adopted
by the General Assembly in its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970,
Guided also by the provisions of article 1 of the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, which affirm that all peoples have the right to self-determination,
Guided further by the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples and by the provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, adopted on 25 June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights,1 and in
particular part I, paragraphs 2 and 3 thereof, relating to the right of self-determination of all
peoples and especially those subject to foreign occupation,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 181 A and B (II) of 29 November 1947
and 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, as well as all other resolutions that confirm and define
the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, particularly their right to self-determination,
* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
1
GE.11-12839
the Council on its sixteenth session (A/HRC/16/2), chap. I.
A/CONF.157/23.